What is Earching.info? - How to remove Earching.info

What is Earching.info? Oh, my web browser goes crazy, it keeps popping up advertisement web sites when I view some web sites. I don't know why. My homepage has been totally changed to some strange website. If I use google to search something and click the search result, it won't go to the real site that I want but will go to other web sites. What do I do?

What is Earching.info?

Earching.info is a severe virus belongs to Trojan family. It penetrates into your computer with share programs or games downloaded from the Internet. It can also be installed if users click hacked web sites or spam email attachments. Earching.info injects its own files and registry entries into your computer, and changes the start-up items immediately once installed so that it can be activated automatically each time users boot up their computers. It corrupts system files and program files, which can explain why your computer runs weirdly once infected. The infected machine can shut down and restart randomly; blue screen problem happens from time to time; programs cannot work properly. Besides, your system runs slowly. Once Earching.info is installed to the infected PC, this Trojan horse will start to modify system settings and Window Registry to mess up the infected machine. It keeps taking up high system resources so that the infected computer will suffer a slow performance. Moreover, other virus infections like browser hijack redirect, rogue program and even malware will attack the infected computer as well, and that is the reason it can be one of the most dangerous virus processes on the Internet, PC users should remove this nasty Trojan horse completely to keep the infected PC safe.

How does Trojan.ransom.gend get on my computer?

Typically, it gets on your computer as video codecs which are needed to install so that you can view certain, especially porn related, videos from the internet. Besides, Trojan.ransom.gend can be distributed via: 1. Your clicking on some malicious links. 2. Your browsing the sites with bad reputation. 3. Your opening the infected email attachments. 4. Your freeware or shareware downloads. Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to Earching.info and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Earching.info from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to Earching.info.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of Earching.info from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

As it is discussed, the Earching.info virus does great harm to the target computer. It is designed to damage the contaminated system and pilfer important information from unknown computer users. In fact, the Trojan corrupts your computer greatly to cause system crash and computer freezing problems. It slows down the system performance and affects executable programs greatly. Most of your favorite settings are typically changed unexpectedly. As a matter of fact, many executable programs are corrupted by this Trojan to function normally, especially the anti-virus program.